Intel Core i5-650 vs Intel Core i7-3517U

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs Intel Core 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1013 points

1067 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2051 points

2095 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

747 points

796 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

716 points

764 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

15.60 points

144% significantly higher Blender score

6.39 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

908 points

915 points

0.77% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

458 points

Identical

458 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

943 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

915 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

459 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

450 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

68% significantly higher clock speed

1.9 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.46 GHz

15% slightly higher turbo speed

3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

73 W

17 W

329% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

38 GiB

18% slightly more supported memory

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

943rd of 1,089

930th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2010 February

2012 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-650 vs Core i7-3517U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-3517U is faster than the Core i5-650. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-650 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-650 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3517U. Also, the Core i5-650 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-3517U outputs less heat than Core i5-650 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-650 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.